A World Without Chernobyl

[Monroe]

I heard that Chernobyl actually created a few new species of animals like a three foot earthworm. What would we do without the three foot earthworm?!

http://www.brookings.edu/projects/archi ... ns/50.aspx

Very cool list I found just the other day when I heard about the new Russia-America arms reduction deal coming through I looked up to see what the peak was. A lot of neat facts including that we have 1 nuclear plane hangar but never have we built a nuclear plane.

[Mikey]

At least if we build the plane, we'll have a place to keep it.

[Sionnach Glic]

Personally I prefer our one, since WYSIWYG. I want to pay the price I see on the label - not that + 21%.

21%!!!!!!!
Ours is only 8.125 (here in New York at least).

Welcome to Europe.

"Tax cuts? What are they?"

[Aaron]

Well at least we have government services worth a damn.

[Monroe]

At least if we build the plane, we'll have a place to keep it.

Maybe we'll use it to find those 10 missing warheads!

[GrahamKennedy]

I heard that Chernobyl actually created a few new species of animals like a three foot earthworm. What would we do without the three foot earthworm?!

And let's not forget the 295 foot mutated Iguana.

[sunnyside]

Hmmm. There may have been some different technologies.

The car thing might actually be possible. I don't think there is a practical shielding solution for a proper fission reaction. However there are a handful of isotopes produces by reactors that will undergo fission from interaction with....hmmm I bet it was alpha particles. So you could mix an alpha emiter with these things and (presuming they don't kick off neutrons in their reaction very often) you'd have a small scale and shieldable fission reactor.

I'd have to think the expense for such things would be out of the reach for most people, but given how much of a major pain it is for militaries to keep their tanks and such fuled we might have seen some of those.

But I dunno if it'd actually work out once you tried to implement it.